141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago >> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . >> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : >> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . >> I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, >> but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. > I'd say you enabled "Smart quotes" in Libreoffice sometime since 2011 > and it's now mangling apostrophes and dashes into something clever : > try Tools -> AutoCorrect Options -> Options .
Thanks for the pointer. Wasn't it still Open Office back then ? Perhaps when it changed to LibreOffice, default settings were altered. There were basically 3 problems : (1) the elided dash was mangled, so I told it not to elide & replaced all instances with '--' ; (2) it was using some bizarre " ' ", which was also getting mangled, so I manually (with some search/replace) replaced all instances with something which avoided the symbol, while expanding abbreviations. After some work, I believe I've found them all, but will wait till tomorrow before uploading it to the I/net. The problem isn't a simple general setting, so it mb a LO bug, but I don't have the time to take it up there. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
